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initialism
- Civil Aeronautics Board
- (UK) Citizen's advice bureau
- (Ireland) Criminal Assets Bureau. A government agency tasked with recovering the profits of criminal enterprise.
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| cabriolet |
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noun - An automobile with a retractable top.
- A light two wheeled carriage with a folding top pulled by a single horse
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| calash |
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noun - a sort of light 'convertible' carriage with a folding hood
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| caliper |
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noun
- (italbrac, usually plural only) Uncommon variant of calipers.
- (context, Automotive) The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
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| CAR |
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initialism
- Central African Republic
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| cargo |
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noun (Plural: cargos or cargoes)
- freight, Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
- 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
- :""her whole and entire ; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,""
- 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence,
- : ""but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."
- (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
- 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi
- : "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "" cult)."
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| carriage |
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noun
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- The ride was very romantic.
- A railroad car drawn by a locomotive.
- (archaic) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself.
- His noble concealed the heart of a knave.
- The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
- (local to New England) A shopping cart.
- A baby stroller; a baby carraige.
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| carrier |
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noun
- A person or object that carry, carries someone or something else.
- aircraft carrier
- armored personnel carrier
- A company in the business of shipping freight.
- A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- A mobile network operator; wireless carrier
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| cart |
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noun
- A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
- A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go cart.
verb
- (transitive) To carry goods.
- I've been carting these things around all day.
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| cartwheel |
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noun
- The literal wheel of a cart.
- A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
- A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
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| chaise |
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noun
- An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.
- A chaise longue.
- A post chaise.
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| Clarence |
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proper noun
- A ducal title which has been traditionally awarded to junior members of the English and British royal families
- An English surname.
- An English given name.
- A placename given to towns in countries settled by the British.
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| coach |
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noun
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- (rail) A railroad car drawn by a locomotive.
- A trainer or instructor.
- A single decked long-distance, or privately hired bus.
- (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
verb (coaches, coaching, coached)
- (sports) To train.
- To instruct.
- She has coached many opera stars.
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| commute |
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verb (commut, ing)
- (intransitive) To travel from one's home (usually in the suburbs of a city) to one's workplace (usually in the city itself, or in another city) to go to work, or vice versa.
- (context, intransitive, mathematics) To engage in a commutative operation.
- (context, transitive, finance) To pay out the lump-sum present value of an annuity.
- (context, transitive, law, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
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| commuter |
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noun - A person who regularly travels from one place to another, typically to work.
adjective - Typically of an aircraft, train etc., designed for use by commuters.
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| containerization |
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noun
- the act of containerizing
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| conveyance |
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noun
- The action or instance of conveying.
- A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
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| corridor |
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noun
- A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it.
- A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
- Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
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| cruise |
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noun (wikipedia, cruising)
- A sea voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
verb (cruis, ing)
- (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
- (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
- (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
- (context, slang) To seek a sexual partner, especially a prostitute.
- (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occuring at 10 months
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| cycle |
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noun
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art
- A programme/program on a washing machine, dishwasher, etc.
- Put the washing in on a warm cycle.
- A generic term for a pedal-powered vehicle (unicycles, bicycles and tricycles), or motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels (motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, motortrike).
- (baseball) When a batter hits a single, a double, a triple, and a homer in the same game
- Jones hit for the in the game.
verb (cycl, ing)
- To ride a
- Noun, cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
- (icehockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
- They have their cycling game going tonight.
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